Battle Hymn of the Republic

He w- he got out there with his pink vest, the traffic vest.

But they, uh, remixed apparently The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

You know, "Glory, glory hallelujah." Mm-hmm.

So they remixed that, and it's so bad, and there's someone who's jumping, and then there's the Kennedy Center.

Yeah, for some reason, I'm getting a flashback to sitting on shag carpeting in front of a Magnavox floor console TV.

watching Elvis maybe performing from Hawaii, but he's singing in the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

And you're just like, what is going

on?

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Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord by Julia Ward Howe.

Chaplain Charles C. McCabe, afterwards a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was confined in Libby Prison during a part of the Civil War.

Every dating app swap is another loss.

At last his footfall came.

He pushed the door ajar, looked around for a moment on the sleepers, and then raising his arms, he shouted, great news into papers.

did you ever see a resurrection i never did but this once oh how those men sprang to their feet and what was the news the telegraph operator at martinsburg when putting those ciphers to the fore had clicked the instrument once too often there was a mistake of thirty-six thousand more yet lee was driven back the potomac was swollen the pontoons were washed away i have stood by when friends long parted meet again with raining tears and fond embrace but never did i witness such joy as swept into those strong men's faces where the deepest sorrow set but a moment before well what did we do why we sang sang as saved men do sang till captains flynn and sawyer immured in the lowest dungeons below and doomed to die within ten days heard us and wondered sang till the very walls of libby quivered in the melody as five hundred of us joined in the chorus of mrs julia ward howe's battle hymn of the republic mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord this hymn was written in eighteen sixty one at the beginning of the civil war in the united states inspired partly by the scene of troops hurrying from the north to southern battlefields all during that terrible struggle it was the great war-song of the union armies during the recent world war it was sung by english-speaking troops from both sides of the atlantic section fifty one

section fifty two of one hundred and one hymn stories by carl f price this librivox recording is in the public domain jesus shall reign where'er the sun by isaac watts Among the many monuments of England's greatest heroes in Westminster Abbey, London, there stands a memorial tablet to Dr. Isaac Watts upon which the poet is represented with pen and hand writing at a table, and above him an angel is whispering to him words of inspiration.

They spent their final hours singing to each other through the iron bars.

Julius Rosenberg sang the Battle Hymn of the Republic, a deeply American patriotic anthem, signaling his enduring belief that he was acting for a greater righteous cause.

And Ethel Rosenberg sang a tragic, sweeping aria from the opera Madam Butterfly.

In the end, they were not the terrifying robotic super spies the government portrayed them to be.

I l- I fell in love with this record, and I...

My favorite music as a kid was Battle Hymn of the Republic, Old Man River, Streets of Laredo, America the Beautiful, you know, uh, uh, Yankee Doodle Dandy.

And I didn't know at the time that 20 years later I'd be marrying an American girl, be moving to New York, and kind of...

I remember quite early in our, in our marriage, we were walking in, in, in, uh, Manhattan, and, uh, one of these songs started playing, and I just started singing along.

of Londoners

who all in song joined in singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

You know, so moving, so moving.

Today, the U.S.'s international image is, I think, very different.